British Social Attitudes Survey, 1985 (ICPSR 8551)

Citation

Social and Community Planning Research. British Social Attitudes Survey, 1985. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2004-09-23. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08551.v2

This survey is part of a continuing series designed to
monitor trends in a wide range of social attitudes in Great Britain.
The British Social Attitudes Survey (BSA) is similar in purpose to the
General Social Survey carried out by the National Opinion Research
Center (NORC) in the United States. The BSA questionnaire had two
parts, one administered by an interviewer and the other completed by
the respondent. As in the past, the 1985 interview questionnaire
contained a number of "core" questions covering the major topic areas
of defense, the economy, labor market participation, and the welfare
state. The 1985 self-enumerated questionnaire was devoted to a series
of questions on a range of social, economic, political, and moral
issues. Topics that received attention include: (1) media, politics,
and international affairs, (2) economic expectations and evaluations
and labor market participation, (3) social expenditure, welfare state
issues, the National Health Service, and education, and (4) social
class, religion, racial prejudice, gender issues, and public and
private morality. Other questions covered the welfare state,
environment, technology and employment, and nuclear war. Beginning in
1985, an international initiative funded by the Nuffield Foundation,
the International Social Survey Program (ISSP), also contributed a
module to the BSA. The topic of the ISSP module in this collection was
the role of government. Additional demographic data gathered included
age, gender, education, occupation, household income, marital status,
social class, and religious and political affiliations.

Social and Community Planning Research. British Social Attitudes Survey, 1985. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2004-09-23. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08551.v2

(1) In 1999, Social and Community Planning Research
(SCPR) became the National Centre for Social Research. (2) Under
agreement with the UKDA, the data are disseminated as they were
received, without additional processing by ICPSR. This agreement also
provides that ICPSR will disseminate the data only for use within its
member institutions. Persons from nonmember institutions may request
these data directly from the UKDA. (3) The data are provided as an
SPSS portable file. (4) The documentation was converted to Portable
Document Format (PDF) by the UKDA. The PDF documentation can also be
downloaded from the UKDA Web site at
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/.
(5) The codebook is provided by the principal investigator as a
Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed
by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader
software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to
obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:

Social and Community Planning Research. British Social Attitudes Survey, 1985. ICPSR08551-v2. Colchester, Essex, England: United Kingdom Data Archive/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributors], 2004. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08551.v2

2004-09-23 The data and documentation were resupplied by the
United Kingdom Data Archive (UKDA). The data are now available as an
SPSS portable file and the documentation has been converted to PDF by
the UKDA.

Notes

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